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Through Nov. 30 Shows
Last year she won the “Labels for Libations” competition to create a Magic Hat Brewing Company beer label. Her delightful, whimsical illustrations of the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it adorn prints, greeting cards and small goods. Her work is carried at Vermont venues and select locations around the country. Polanshek’s drawings are realistic but imaginative: She puts bighorn sheep antlers on bears, bat wings on pigs, tortoise shells on bunnies. A selection of her delicately rendered fantasies from the wild is on view at Speeder & Earl’s Coffee. Pictured: “House of Fox.”
at Speeder & Earl's Coffee
in
Burlington(map).

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Through Nov. 30 Shows
"Moving Still," a solo exhibit of new work from the Bristol-based, self-taught painter. She draws from a background in textiles, years of living abroad and studying folk art from around the world.
at Northern Daughters
in Vergennes.
Middlebury Area(map).

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Through Dec. 2 Shows
"Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters," a retrospective featuring more than 40 of the photographer's large-format black-and-white portraits made over five decades, accompanied by audio recordings of his subjects.
at Highland Center for the Arts
in Greensboro.
Northeast Kingdom(map).

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Through Dec. 8 Shows
“Nature is a haunted house,” said Emily Dickinson, “but art is a house that tries to be haunted.” This passage serves to introduce Moss’ solo exhibition, “Landscape Mysteries,” now on view at the BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Creating entirely from memory, the artist and Dartmouth College studio art professor channels experiences and impressions of the natural environment through paint. “My work is often generated out of a distant memory of a physical setting that becomes a metaphor for a personal truth,” he says. As meditations on both wild spaces and psyche, his paintings are doubly haunted. “It is clear that I am trying to hold/reflect the lost moment,” Moss says, “break through the fence of time and reclaim what was given to me as a child on a first-time basis.”
at BigTown Gallery
in Rochester.
Randolph/Royalton(map).

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Through April 1, 2019 Shows
"Cultural Documentarian," portraits of Vermont people and other wildlife by the Braintree photographer.
at Main Street Museum
in White River Junction.
Upper Valley(map).
Free; concert $20.